Improvement in peg-cutters



n. m. BuELLf Peg-Gutters.

Patehied Dec. 8,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrca.

HENRY M. BUELL, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEG- CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,490, dated December 8, 1874; application filed October 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. BUELL, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new I1nprovement in Peg-Cutter and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, perspective view; Figs. 2 and 3, central sections; and in Fig. 4, shaft detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of peg-cutters and like implements which are made adjustable to different angles to their support, and with special reference to the peg-cutters for which Letters Pat ent were granted to me September 3, 1872, the object. of this invention being to lock the cutter-head at either of several different angles; and it consists in constructing the cutter-head with several recesses upon its shank, equidistant from the center of motion,

combined with a cam-shaped shaft, which, turned in one position, will enter a cavity in the shank, and hold the head in that position, or reversed will leave the head free to be turned, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the cutter-head; B, the shank, hung on a bearing, C, in a post, D. The lower end of the shank is made of circular form from the center C. Around this circular surface are formed several transverse recesses, a, and immediately below, or in an equivalent position, is arranged the shaft E. This shaft has onehalf of its body cut away, the other half solid, as denoted in black, Figs. 2 and 3. The shaftis turned by means of a head, F, or otherwise. When the head is turned so that one of the recesses a comes over the shaft, as seen in Fig. 3, then the solid portion of the shaft is turned up into that recess, as seen in Fig. 2, which firmly holds the head in that position. To adjust the head turn the shaft until the cutaway part or cavity (1 will be presented to the shank then the path for turning the shank is open, as seen in Fig. 3, and the head may be turned to any of the positions indicated by the recesses a, and then set as before described.

I am aware that the heads of peg-cutters have before been made adjustable to different angles. I, therefore, do not broadly claim such construction. I claim- The combination of the adjustable head A, constructed with the shank B, and recesses a therein, with the shaft E, the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the head, and constructed with a cavity, d, substantially as set forth. i

HENRY M. BUELL. Witnesses:

CHAS. W. GILLETTE, JOHN KEELEY, WEsLEY J. S UIEEs. 

